The Unskippables: Top 10 ads of November

Published Date: 2016-11-09Total India Views: 1615654An attempt to soothe a tot suddenly transforms a plane into a carnival. An ad that should come with a ‘don’t try this’ disclaimer. Remember how a Jet Airways crew got grounded when Sonu Nigam decided to serenade the passengers?

Published Date: 2016-11-11Total India Views: 492882Just 20 seconds long, but this gets the job done, with Twinkle Khanna needling host Karan Johar about the Khan who must not be named. Or given any more acting jobs this side of the border.

Published Date: 2016-11-03Total India Views: 252631Bacardi throws a literal house party on wheels with its ye old jingle updated, with a few modern sounding bells and whistles as a crowd of teens and twenty somethings live it up. We hope at least the driver is staying off the sauce!

Published Date: 2016-11-22Total India Views: 246948This film doesn’t even pretend to be more than a product demo. But when the product is exciting enough, even a demo works just fine. “Panasonic, get these released in Europe!” one commenter suggests.

Published Date: 2016-11-06Total India Views: 246845A promo for a new show rakes up 248,000 plus views, showing a couple engaged in a public game of tic-tac-toe in some exotic foreign location. Creative that caught on or media planning that made it ubiquitous?

Published Date: 2016-11-07Total India Views: 220507Exotic location, a young couple, driving we hope we never encounter, and a catchy soundtrack. A free tip: considering ‘song name?’ is such a ubiquitous comment, why not put it up (and maybe even a download link) with every commercial?

Honda - The Navi VIP Treatment

Published Date: 2016-11-14Total India Views: 198496What The Fun: a new catchphrase from Honda. This ad is built around a genuine WTF moment: people lining up at a food counter, get bypassed in favour of women on the Navi. We are not telling if F stands for Fun or something else.

Wrigleys Doublemint - #StartSomethingFresh

Published Date: 2016-11-04Total India Views: 147466The Malayalam version of one of last week’s favourites rakes up nearly 1.5 lakh views, comments in the native language and people wondering when their language will get its own version.

Published Date: 2016-11-03Total India Views: 146631The demonstrable popularity of demo advertising. we hope will make creative people question more esoteric approaches. This ad generated a lively debate in the comments section covering aspects like service and the relative merits of other cars

Jet Airways - #FlightOfFantasy

Published Date: 2016-11-14Total India Views: 102645A film about a programme Jet Airways did for Children’s Day giving underprivileged children, their first taste of air travel, set to a poem, rounds out our list of the most viewed ads on YouTube for November.